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Square, Inc. IPO
Nanda, Ramana; White, Robert; Pickle, Lauren G.Case HBS-817054-EFinanceIn November 2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate that had been outlined in the preliminary prospectus and 42% below the $15.50 share price in its most recent financing less than a year before. The lower than anticipated pricing of Square's IPO, and the implied valuation, had left investors and market observers wondering if this was an indic...Starting at €8.20
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Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (A) (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Kane, MichaelCase HBS-202S17FinanceIn July 2000, Airbus Industries' supervisory board is on the verge of approving a $13 billion investment for the development of a new super jumbo jet known as the A3XX that would seat from 550 to 1,000 passengers. Having secured approximately 20 orders for the new jet, the board must decide whether there is sufficient long-term demand for the A3XX to justify the investment. At the time, Airbus was predicting that the market for very large aircraf...Starting at €8.20
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State Street Corporation
Fruhan, William E.Case HBS-209112-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. State Street Corp. reports a 13% gain in EPS in 2008 amidst a global financial crisis. The stock price declines 59% on the day of the earnings report. This one day decline was exceeded in the prior 12 month period by only one non-bankrupt S&P 500 company. That company was AIG, Inc. which declined 61 % on the day Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. While State Street reporte...Starting at €8.20
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Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube
Gilson, Stuart C.; Dionne, John D.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-216006-EFinanceIn May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an icon of American business, Kodak had fallen on desperately hard economic times as its traditional business of manufacturing cameras and photographic film had all but disappeared with ...Starting at €8.20
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Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance---2006 Update
Esty, Benjamin C.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-207107-EFinanceProvides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance, and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2002 to 2006. Examples of project-financed investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline, $6 billion Iridium global satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique, and $20 billion Sakhalin I...Starting at €8.20
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SKS Microfinance: The Sour Taste of Success
Srinivasan SunderasanCase IVEY-9B12N004-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyIn August 2010, SKS Microfinance became India’s (and South Asia’s) first publicly traded microfinance institution with a stock exchange listing. A share in the company was offered at INR 985 and it commenced trading at INR 1,036, reaching INR 1,404 within a month. However, that was the extent of the good news as far as the company and its shareholders were concerned. Things began to unravel rapidly. The initial public offering of shares was seen ...Starting at €8.20
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Alessandro Mueller: How to Become an Entrepreneur by Making the Numbers Work
Ruman, Szczepan; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-862-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceAlessandro leaned back in his chair. Through the windows of his home office in Aachen, Germany, he could already see the sunrise and he was not even close to making his buyout model work. Two days from now, on March 13, 2012, he had to deliver the model for this opportunity to his investors. But how could he get their desired IRR and at the same time maintain the stake he wanted to have in this investment? He put away a can of Coke that he was ab...Starting at €8.20
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Equilibre su balance con retribución basada en deuda
Edmans, AlexArticle ART-1865FinanceCuando el negocio se tuerce, los directivos cuya remuneración consiste básicamente en instrumentos de capital, como acciones y opciones, suelen correr mayores riesgos en un intento desesperado de salvar sus empresas. Pero incluso si se consuma el desastre, salen mejor parados que los desafortunados titulares de obligaciones o bonos, que han de asumir la deuda resultante. Esta investigación, realizada junto a Qi Liu, de The Wharton School, es la p...Starting at €8.20
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The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)
Rose, Clayton; Bergstresser, Daniel B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-309070-EFinanceBear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's condition. Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and New York Fed President Timothy Geithner were intent on limiting the impact of Bear's problems on ...Starting at €8.20
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Debt-Based Pay May Give Much-Needed Balance
Edmans, AlexArticle ART-1865-EFinanceWhen business takes a bad turn, managers whose compensation only ever contains equity-like instruments, such as stock and options, are often tempted to take bigger risks in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their firms. But even if their firms go down in flames, these managers usually emerge with fewer scars than those unfortunate bondholders saddled with the resulting debt. The litany of corporate failures in the United States and elsewhere remain...Starting at €8.20